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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1880.
Begins Right.—The first vote of Sena
tor Brown, of Georgia, was against the
Windom proposition to add $000,000 to
the pension deficiency hill to pay United
States marshals. The question was de
cided in the negative by a strict party
vote. _
The Enumerators.—In behalf of the
census enumerators we are requested to
suggest that heads of families have their
answers prepared before hand, and writ
ten out, so that the enumerators may not
be delayed. This would make their work
easy and satisfactory.
—Rhode Island has the following stat
ute: “All marriages between a white per
son and a negro shall be absolutely null
and void; and the person joining them in
marriage shall be subject to a penalty of
$200.” Samuel D. Dorrell, a full-blooded
negro, was lately married at Providence
to Ellen Carrington, a white girl. The
Rev. George B. Smitli, who performed the
ceremony, is to be prosecuted, in order to
test the law.
—At Kernevcl, in Germany, the other
day, just as a religious procession was en
tering the church, the bell hung in the
tower, weighing half a ton, came down
with a tremendous force, crashing through _ ^
three floora on its way, and fell at the feet i„dj ano ] a<
of the man who headed the procession
bearing the banner. A moment later and
a fearful catastrophe would have been the
result. As it was, no one was hurt.
The Unit from New York was, ac
cording to the Press telegrams of the 31st,
seriously impaired at Chicago by a pledge
of twenty-two of the New York delegation
to vote for Grant under no circumstances.
This is 22 out of a total of 74. The Penn
sylvania defection was reported by the
Grant men as less serious, while the
Blaine men estimated it at 30. If these
statements are true, Grant will hardly
sweep the prize on the first ballot.
—A ton of gold or silver contains 29,
160.60 ounces. A ton of gold is worth
$602,875. A ton of silver, at the present
rate per ounce, is worth about $12,000.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,200
pounds, and is worth nearly $300,000.
A cubic foot of silver weighs 600 pounds,
and is worth about $10,000. The value of
gold coin, bars and bullion in circulation
In the world is estimated at $3,500,000,000.
This would make in a mass a twenty-five
foot cube.
Vive la Humbug.—Mr. Hayes has
ation bill and then complain that the
Domocrats have closed the courts for lack
of appropriations. It Is not probable that
the Democrats will ever vote to pay mar
shals for bulldozing at the polls; and so
long as Brother Hayes will not accept an
appropriation for them which does not
comprehend that service, the difficulty
seems insurmountable.
A Noisy Place.—The New York
Mail, in a flight of fancy, says it can al
ready hear the roar of the political glad
iators at the Chicago convention. In so
ber fact, it is a mistake. No crowd of ten
thousand, drunk or sober, can roar so loud
as to be heard twelve hundred miles.
But to-day thby will do their possibles.
They will roar as loud as they can. Chi
cago will resound with their clamor. If
they did not fix up all arrangements be
fore sunrise this morning, there will be
the loudest and sharpest talk to-day ever'
heard before in any national convention.
last Week’s Cotton Figures.
According to the New York Chronicle
the cotton receipts of the seven days end--
Ing last Friday night, were 23,764 bales,
against 17,133 the corresponding week of
last year, showing the week’s excess to
be 6,631 bales.- The total receipts from
September 1st to fcst Friday night were
4,739,442 against 4,SS9,721 for the same
period of the last cotton year—showing
au excess of349,721 bales.
The interior port business of last week
was as follows: Receipts, 9,318, against
0,850 for the same week of last year.
Shipments, 27,532 against 10,031 last
year. Stocks, 143,241 against 42,198 last
year.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
showed on Friday 2,302,766 bales of cot
ton in sight, against 1,S07,292 at same
date last year—2,078,078 the year before,
and 2,792,2f? bales in 1877 at same date.
These figures show an increase of 495,-
274 bales on the visible supply of last
year at this date—224,688 on that of 1S78,
and a’decrease of 489,507 on the visible
supply of 1877 at this date. Cotton last
Friday in Liverpool was quoted at 6 11-16
for middling upland. At that date one
year ago the quotation was 6 13-16, in
1878 the quotation was 6 3-16, and in
1877 at same date the quotation was 5J.
The Chronicle appends the following
statement to its table of receipts from
plantations:
The above statement shows:
1. That the total receipts from the plan
tations since September 1 in 1SI9-S0 were
'4,875,382 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,426,267
bales; in 1S77-78 were 4,218,647 bales.
2. That although the receipts at the
out ports the past week were 23,764 bales,
the actual movement from plantations was
only 5,550 bales, the balance being drawn
from stocks at the interior ports. Last
year the receipts from the plantatians for
the same week were 7,882 bales, and for
1878 they were 10,940 bales.
The Chronicle reports generally dry
weather in Texas, with a temperature
ranging from 90 down. The cotton plant
looks strong and healthy, but there are
caterpillar reports about Galveston and
Heavy rains are reported
A New Result of “Fostering.”
The World, in the course of some com
ments on the tariff controversy in the Sen
ate, and Mr. Eaton’s bill to create a com
—The following head-linos, displayed
with the lurid typographic art that only a
Western country paper is capable of, pre
ceded the account of the Illinois Republi
can convention in the Fargo (Dak.,)
Argus:
Ho! his comrades, see the signal, wav
ing in the sky—votes enough sure in con
vention—how is that for high? Tlio’ the
frightful tempest rageth, cities laying low
—tho’ a powder mill explodetb, dealing
death and woe. Notwithstanding Indian
outbreaks fill the coast with fears, we’ll
take the N. P. and their scalps raise in the
next six years. Hold the fort for he is
coming, waver, stalwarts shan’t—send the
War-cry up to heaven, “No duffer shall
wax Grant.”
A Panic in Princeton.—Princeton
College, last week, sent her students home
to take holiday until the 23d instant,
when commencement exercises begin.
The reason of this was the prevalence of
malarial diseases, which hed been fatal to
several students. The New York Daily
Mail says that investigation lias already
determined enough to give foundation for
an opinion is to Princeton’s trouble. The
town has no system of sewerage and no
water works. Although the college has
an excellent supply of pure water from a
spring, the lack of sewerage in the town
seems to have poisoned the atmosphere of
the whole place, and the fierce heat of this
extraordinary May has made the soil teem
With disease. Prof. Cornwall, the ana
lytical chemist of the college, discovered
that the water of no less than ten wells
from which the students drank contained
an excessive amount of ammonA, pre
sumably from the proximity of the wells,
to cesspools.
—The price d paper is not to be re
duced. The Printing Paper-makers’ As
sociation had their regular monthly meet
ing in Springfield, Massachusetts, on
Wednesday, and voted to maintain the
present rates firmly. No importations of
foreign paper stock are now being made,
nor is it possible to make them with the
tariff unchanged, the duties being pro
hibitory. The manufacturers look for an
Immediate advance in the price of domes
tic stock, the making of that article being
controlled by one or two parties, and
hence the cost of paper, they hold, will
not go down. To make sure that the sup
ply does not exceed the demand, the
Eastern manufacturers have voted to shut
down their mills for three weeks in July
nud the same time in August. It seems
probable from this action that both the
stock and paper manufacturers have come
to the conclusion that the tariff will not
bo changed during the present session of
Congress.
about Breuham, with a fall of three inches
in two days. It will be remembered that
a tremendous deluge occurred in Texas
on Friday last, which none of these re
ports allude to, but which was very de
structive and disastrous. In Louisiana,
at New Orleans 3.62 of rain fell during
the week on four days. In Shreveport
1.60 during the week.
In Mississippi there were two days of
rain. At Columbus 2.09 in three days.
In Arkansas, at Little Rock, light rains on
three days. At Memphis on four days 3.13
of rain fell. At Nashville only about half
an inch. At Mobile, in Alabama, rain on
four days and a fall of 4.79. Crops and
weeds growing fast. At Montgomery, five
days of rain, reaching 4.22. At Selma,
four days of rain and a great deal of wet,
In Geoigia, at Columbus, too much rain
—a fall of 9.92 during the week. In Ma
con, only 1.60 of rain on one day, but too
much grass in the crops. The cotton
acreage increase is reported at six to seven
per cent, over last year. Savannah had
1.16 of rain duriug the week. Augusta,
rain on three days.
The general tenor of the cotton crop re
ports is very favorable; but it will not be
doubted that the great difference in moist
ure between this spring and the last is
bound to display surprising results before
long. The crop is considerably increased
in acreage. The number of hands is di
minished, and it will not be doubted that
a hand last spring could keep a crop in
good condition with forty per cent, less
labor than he can this spring. -
Ellison & Co.’s Liverpool circular for
May closes with the following upon
PROSPECTS. •
The prospects of supply have not under
gone any material change since the issue
of our last report, but the entire situation
is much sounder now than it was then,
owing to the decline which has taken
place in prices. At the moment the
feeling both here and Manchester is flat
and desponding, the reverse, in point of
fact, of the excitement which culminated
in February. We did not sympathize
with the extravagant views and expecta
tions current at that time, and we do not
sympathize with the gloomy and demoral
ized state of things which has come over
the market during the past week.
_ It is evident from what has occurred
since the opening ot the season that, (as
we stated at the time,) a very large pro
portion of the business done between No
vember and February was speculative and
anticipatory, and that prices were in con
sequence pushed up to an artificially high
level from which a sharp reaction was
sooner or later inevitable. But, as only
a very moderate amount of new business
has been done in Manchester during the
past two months, a large portion of the
“forward” transactions must have been
■closed; and as, simultaneously with the
clearance of contracts, prices Lave receded
to the rates ruling in November, it is only
natural to expect that a revival may be
witnessed shortly.
Operators of all classes, however, are
sure to have a wholesome dread of a repe
tition of the inflation which ruled in Feb
ruary, and prices will not be allowed to
run away, unless some adversity overtakes
the American crop, in which case, of
course, the entire situation would have to
be rggarded from a new standpoint. So
rar the crop prospects are verMbilliant,
and already there are estimateJFX* to 6J
million bales; but very different figures
will be current a few montlis hence.
Meanwhile, the course of the market will
be ruled entirely, by Manchester; every
other influence likely to affect prices dur
ing the summer has been discounted by
the-late decline.
Hon. A. O. Bacon Speaks.—We clip
the following card of our distinguished
townsman from the Atlanta Constitution:
Macon, May 29,18S0—Editors Consti
tution: In your issue of this date you
mention me as a candidate for four differ
ent positions. I must beg that you allow
me to correct in your columns a state
ment calculated to do me au injury, while
doubtless not so intended by you. I am
duly appreciative of the kindness of
friends who have mentioned my name in
these connections, but I have never an
nounced myself as a candidate for either
of the positions named, and to prevent
mjsooiis tractions, permit me to add that I
an not now, and do not expect to be, a
candidate either for governor or for the
house of representatives. As to the ap
pointment of delegate to Cincinnati, it is a
position for which one would not be apt to
press himself as a candidate. Tho party,
looking solely to the great end to be ac
complished, will endeavor to choose those
deemed most fit for the position, and those
selected for this important duty will
doubtless feel honored in serving. Very
respectfully, A. O. Bacon,
T-he North Macon Grammar
School.—We beg respectfully to express
the earnest hope that the Bibb county
Academy trustees and the city fathers
will be able to harmonize on some plan
to furnish this school with healthful ac
commodations next year. The case Is a
very urgent one. The pupils are poisoned
by the bad and unwholesome atmosphere
of those crowded and ill-ventilatod rooms.
No man can say what and how many
lives are dependent on this decision,
which may remit 250 children to these
conditions for another year. What man
is willing to incur such a hazard!
duties within any approach to the limits
of reason or common sense. It will hardly
be believed, but it is gravely contended
that twenty years of undisturbed posses
sion and enjoyment of enormous tariff
bounties have invested many of these
protected industries with the claims, char
acter and rights of vested industries—on
the principle, we suppose, of the jocose
interpretation of the maxim that “one
good turn deserves another;” that is to
say, that the performance oi one gratuitous
and voluntary piece of service creates a
claim for another.
This gives us new light, while it ex
plodes the old-time protective tariff argu
ment as to the policy of “fostering and
cherishing” American industry by boun
ties oh its products until it is able to stand
alone and endure tbe competition of the
cheaper labor of Europe. The plea now
is that the numerous bounties paid out of
the pockets of the people for twenty years
have so entered into the investments
and modus operandi of trade as to
create an equitable claim for their indefi
nite continuance. Congress has no right,
by any change of legislation, to destroy or
impair the value of these investments, and
therefore the bounties may be claimed in
perpetuity as a legitimate and necessary
part of the business plant.
Thus it is admitted that this “fostering
and cherishing” has merely called into
existence a lot of cripples, who can never
stand alone, but must tumble down when
ever the crutch of aprotective tariff bounty
is withdrawn.
Of course, this is practical nonsense,
American mechanism, in point of actual
fact, now leads the world. It is better
than that of any other nation, as a general
proposition; and whatever incapacity now
exists to meet the competition of the
world is merely the outgrowth of the pro
tective system, the natural and inevitable
effect of which is to develop a feeling of
dependence and incapacity—to restrain
individual enterprise and to confuse trade
exchanges—whereas, if it was abolished,
every obstacle to a fearless and successful
competition would soon be removed, and
our manufactures, in every branch, adapt
themselves to a condition of healthful
competition.
Protection is now the grand obstacle to
American trade. The country teems with
every crude material for manufactured
products, and her mechanics are the most
intelligent and enterprising in the world
The one great trouble and difficulty is
that government confuses all trade opera
tions and all values, by undertaking to
control and shape that industry by tariff
restrictions and bounties. Trade, to be
healthful, must be free.
Bibb County Sets a Good Example to
tbe State,
The Democracy of Bibb, in primary as
sembly convened, jesterday, to appoint
delegates to tbe State convention, to be
held in Atlanta on the 9th of June, con
fined themselves wisely to the business
routine which was properly before them
They appointed twenty representatives to
cast the vote of the county, passed a reso
lution favoring the application of the two-
thirds rule in both State and national con
ventions, and then adjourned sine die. No
fulminations were launched against this
or that Democratic candidate whose course
might have been displeasing to some; no
personal allusions or animadversions were
leveled at the head of any individual
Democrat, whether in or out of oflice;
but, on the contrary, the able chairman,
Hon. Samuel nail, said, in his opening
address, that the only strife and rivalry
that could obtain in this contest would be
in the struggle to see who might dare and
do the most in defense of constitutional
liberty and our dearest rights.
This action is eminently discreet. Let
it not be forgotten for a moment, we again
remark, that just now we have no enemy
in front, but are simply organizing onr
hosts and setting them in battle array for
the terrific conflict with the Radical foe,
which is soon to begin. In our late Con
federate war, when regiments and battal
ions elected their own officers, who hesi
tated to draw sword and follow to the
death his leader, whether or not elevated
by the aid of his individual ballot?
The parallel in the present instance is
complete. There are a half dozen con
testants, more or less, for gubernatorial,
senatorial, congressional and legislative
honors, all Democrats, and each with an
enthusiastic personal following of his
own. Why wage a fratricidal warfare
against any of them ?
How much better rather, to allow each
aspirant a fair showing in the primary
meetings and conventions of the party,
and then, when the voice of the majority
has been pronounced, as loyal Democrats,
lock shields and fight side by side for
the nominee. This is the only method
by whifch Independentism can be exor
cised, the quasi feuds of a heated prelimi
nary canvass composed, the entente
cordiale between rival candidates and
their followers restored, and victory be
made to perch upon the Democratic ban
ners.
Friends and countrymen, reserve your
ammunition for tbe common Radical foe.
awakened more spontaneous and genbral
approval than that of our distinguished
fellow-citizen, whose name heads this ar
ticle.
It is useless to deny the tact, that there
is a widespread sentiment in the Demo
cratic party of the State in favor of filling
Hon. A. 0. Bacon for United States The Chicago Convention.
Senator. Our telegrams this morning report, so
The recent, resignation by tbeHon. Jno. j far> a victory of the anti-Grant men in the
JH _ t B. Gordon of his seat in the Senate, has ^ temporary organization. Mr. Hoar, .ot
mission of experts to mature a new tariff. rendered speculation! rife as to whom the . Massachusetts, has been installed as tern-
bill during the congressional recess, gives ! Des ^ legislature will elect as his successor. t porary chairman. The committee on cre-
us a vivid idea of new and strange difficul- | - I ^ mon S the names which have been sug- . tjpntials, however, comprises a large ma
ttes which beset a modification of tariff | gcsi-cd fer this exalted position none has jority of Grant men, and their reports thfa
' *" " “““ • ujoming at 11 o’clock will bring on the
struggle on the unit question. This will
probably result in the defeat of the unit.
It is very questionable whether anything
decisive will take place to-day. The com
mittees on organization having been ap
pointed, the convention adjourned till 11
offices of trust and responsibility with O . clock tbis morning.
men who have grownup with the party! The committee °on credentials met at
since the war, who have been ideuti- five last evening and expected a stormy
fied with its struggles and its sue- j all-night session. If thev report this
cesses, and who have passed through a morning, it is perhaps not improbable that
the day may be spent in the discussion.
Grant has no nominating majority of the
delegates, and his adherents are said to
have agreed to rally on Senator Edmunds,
if they are foiled on Grant. On the
whole, the third term is in a doubtful
way.
The Third Term Controversy,
Which, it is presumable, will be brought
to a close during the present week, has
progressed to that point from which its
opponents, if unsuccessful, will recede
with very ill grace. For illustration, we
will cite the following from the New
York Tribune of Monday:
RETRIEVING A REPUTATION.
When General Grant was in Philadel
phia last December his intimate friends
took pains to explain why he wanted a
third term. It was because he was anx
ious to retrieve his reputation. He was
frank enough to admit that he had made
a good many serious mistakes. He had
lacked experience in civil administration
and had had some bad advisers. The
leisure which he enjoyed during his tour
around the world had enabled him to re
view his administration aud to find out
for himself where and why, with the best
motives in the world, he had gone amiss.
A third term would set him right before
the country. He would make no bad
appointments, would surround himself
with Republicans of the highest standing,
would help tbe party to regain tbe ground
lost in tbe South during his previous
terms, and would retire from office with
as good a reputation as President as he
had made during the war as a soldier.
He would become the most popular man
iu IJs party.
What is the- prospect now? If General
Grant be re-nominated he will be under
pressing obligations to tlie whole pack of
eyil advisers who brought reproach upon
his previous administration. If he be re
elected he will be the minority candidate
of his own party, nominated under the
pressure of machine politics, the unit rule,
gag law and the secession doctrine of
State rights. Instead of regaining the
ground lost in the South, he will weaken,
perhaps paralyze, his party at the North
by alienating the sympathies of large
masses of voters. Who will say that a
nomination which is crammed down the
throats of his party and an election which
will violate the unwritten law of the coun
try will help General Grant to retrieve his
reputation? Will not a third term make
him the most unpopular man of his
time?
Now, if the third-tenners shoidd tri
umph, which at present seems very possi
ble, inasmuch as a main topic of dispute
is whether he does or does not enter the
convention with a nominating majority
secured, the Tribune is already pledged
to support him—yes, to re-elect a President
whose eight years of blundering adminis
tration under bad advisers is to be follow
ed by many years more of worse adminis
tration under still worse influences—a
machine andgag-law candidate—crammed
down the throats of his party by the des
perate arts of a desperate party, against
the will of the people and the unwritten
law. In other articles the Tribune calls
it a Grant conspiracy, and accuses its en
gineers of trickery, usurpation and fraud
It will be hard work tor the Tribune to
ground its advocacy of the third term
hereafter upon “high morals” and elevated
patriotism, and yet very possibly it will
feel called upon to uudertake that job,
The Gubernatorial Outlook.
Just at present opinions are “muchly
mixed” on the question whether Governor
Colquitt lias damaged himself by the ap
pointment of Senator Brown as Gen.
Gordon’s successor. We are constrained,
as already stated, to believe that the man
tle of Gordon should bare fallen upon the
shoulders of seme straightout Dem
ocrat, like Col. Hardeman, Judge Jack-
son, Gen. A. R. Lawton, Col. H. Fielder,
Judge H. V. Johnson, Judge Reese, Hon.
Thomas Norwood, or some other tried
and approved Georgian.
Not that we think Governor Brown
will not faithfully represent his State,
but he really had no claim to the office,
and we trust will be succeeded by our
own Bacon. The papers of the State are
much divided upon the gubernatorial
question. Many sustain Governor Col
quitt, and not a few oppose him.
Col. Hardeman, also, will have a large
following, and may bear away the prize
which he would wear so gracefully. Les
ter and Gartrell, too, are pulling manfully
for the goal, and on the whole it is impos
sible to say what will be the final result
under the stem imposition of the two-.-
thirds rule. Many think a “dark horse”
will be brought upon tho track, and sweep
the stakes at the eleventh hour. We shall
see. In the meantime let good foeling
and “brotherly love” continue.
practical education in politics as they now
stand, which alike redounded to the wel
fare of their State and contributed to tbe
development of their power and the ripe
maturity of their statesmanship. To this
sentiment is largely to be attri
buted the popularity and, we
might even say, the enthusiasm
which has greeted the suggestion that the
mantle of our late illustrious Senator,
who won the hearts of his people in war,
should fall upon Hon. A. O. Bacon as one
who, while his youth was given to the
Service of his country in the field, has con.
secrated the riper powers of his manhood
to her deliverance from the evils entailed
by defeat, to the growth and prosperity of
his Stale and the conservation of the
official purity of his party.
Mr. Bacon made his political dehut in
the convention which assembled in this
cityinlS67, and which may be said to
have created the post-bellum Democratic
party of Georgi ; and he, who, even as lie
crossed the threshold of the temple, stood
forward as one of the sponsors of the
newly-christened party, has grown with
its growth, strengthened with its strength,
assisted in its development, guarded Its
iuterest and stands to-day most promi
nently identified with its success.
In 1868 Mr. Bacon was one of the
presidential electors on the Seymour and
Blair ticket, and by his energy and elo
quence contributed laigely to the first vic
tory of the reorganized Democratic party
in Geoigia. In 1870 Mr. Bacon was
elected to the legislature as one of the
three representatives which the Demo
crats succeeded, for the first time after the
war, in sending from this county; and on
the floor of the House won his spurs amid
such redoubted knights as Lawton,
Speer, Turner, Hammoud, McMillan,
and a host of others.
Mr. Bacon’s principal reputation, how
ever, has been earned as speaker of the
house of representatives, a position which
far six years lie has filled with an ability
unrivaled in the history of the State. No
higher tribute could be paid to his ability,
and no greater indication of his popularity
aud reputation throuughout the State
could be given than the fact that he has
been elected three separate times as the
presiding officer of a body composed of the
ablest and best men of Geoigia. No mau
is better known in Georgia politics than
Speaker Bacon, as he is generally called
aud his wide acquaintance and great per
sonal popularity throughout the State will
render him a most formidable candidate
before any legislature that can be elected
in Georgia.
As a lawyer Mr. Bacon has for years
stood in the front rank of the Georgia
bar, and he unites to this high profession
al attainment a literary culture no less
conspicuous. His graceful bearing and
polished address would render him dis
tinguished even in the brilliant social cir
cles of the national capital. -In short, the
varied attainments necessary to consti
tute a United States Senator—the ambas
sador of his State iu the national councils
—are nowhere more conspicuously united
than in our distinguished fellow citizen
As the brilliant exponent of a party that
has redeemed and revivified Georgia, as
one who has for years been the recognized
leader ofa legislative body whose wise and
patriotic acts have placed our State far in
advance of her Southern sisters, as a type
of the culture aud talent of post-bellum
Democracy we proudly place Hon. A. O.
Bacon before the people of the State as
one well worthy to represent them in the
most august council of the land. We have
no intention to depreciate the qualifica
tions or claims of any other gentlemen
who have been or may be suggested for
this position, but so general is the senti
ment in favor of Mr. Bacon in this sec
tion of the State, that we regard it both
as a duty aud a privilege to bring before
the press and people of Geoigia the name
of a fellow citizen who is at least the peer
of any man in the State.
Another Word of Advice.
The gubernatorial contest begins to
wax warm, and many of the newspapers
of the State are urging the claims of their
individual favorites before the people,
Tills they have a perfect right to do, but
one thing they should not lose sight of.
All the candidates are Democrats, and
each has his personal following of good
and true men. The discussion at present
turns simply upon the claims and qualifi
cations of the several aspirants, and there
is no mannor of necessity while upholding
the cause of any one of them that words
of disparagement should he uttered
against rival antagonists. Let it be re
membered that but cue man can be chosen
for governor or representative in Congress,
or to fill tbe vacancy in tbe United States
Senate. The other candidates, with their
adherents, must fall into line again and
do battle valiantly for the nominee, or the
victory will be lost. Hence in the pri
mary elections, and during the preliminary
canvass inside of the party, the importance
of abstaining from all personalities aud
vituperation in discussing the charac
ter and qualifications of the vaii-bus Dem
ocrats whoso friends seek their preferment.
To pursue any other course is to engen
der heartburnings and strife within the
camp, which may lead to lukewarmness-
and defections at tlie ballot box.
Wo cannot impress this matter too im
portunately and strongly upon the Dem
ocracy of the State. Our political salra-.
tion .depends upon harmony andcoucert
of action among the leaders, and rank and
file also, of tho opponents of radicalism,
and unnecessary acerbities and feuds
should be sedulously avoided.
Let all go into the friendly preliminary
contest for the nomination of standard
bearers, resolved that everything shall be
conducted with the strictest fairness and
determined to support the nominees even
though not personal favorites.
For Senator.—It is said that Atlanta
will present the name of Hon. Martin J,
Crawford to the next legislature as a suit
able successor to Governor Brown. Judge
Crawford is first-class in every particu
lar.
Bruce for Vice President
Browbeating the “Man and Broth
er.”
The Bruce boom at Chicago seems to
languish, though it is stated that over six
ty delegates to the convention favor giving
him tbe second place on the national
Republican ticket. Tho Southern colored
element strongly favor the claims of their
brother, but alas, they meet with no re
sponse from their beloved Northern allies,
who are so fond of using them as cat’s-
paws for their own purposes and aggrand
izement.
Where can it be shown that a solitary
negro was ever elected to any office of
honor or trust north of Mason and Dixon’s
line ? And in the face of the civil rights
bill, the cry for social equality, the indus
trious grinding of the slander mill, the
waving of the bloody shirt, the kukiux
stories, and all the diablerie that has
been brought to bear against the South,
what is the spectacle now presented
at the headquarters of Radicalism in Chi
cago ? Even the Grant men, in their anx
iety to compass the triumph of their chief,
have thrown off the mask, and ate seeking
to coerce their dusky allies into submis
sion. Hear what the intelligent corre
spondent of the Baltimore Sun telegraphs
to that paper: .
Some of the more indiscreet Grant men
have taken it upon themselves to endeavor
to browbeat the colored Sherman dele
gates into the support of Grant. One of
these, a gentleman who had a very profit
able federal office during Grant’s adminis
tration, stood up in the Sherman house
to-night and said in a loud voice to a knot
of colored delegates who surrounded liim-
“I will organize a band after the adjourn,
ment of this convention to hang every
nigger who does not vote fin-Grant.”
Now, we call upon our colored friends
to make a special note of the treatment
they are receiving at the hands of those
white Northern delegates who intend to
run and rule the convention just as they
please, aud without tlie slightest refer
ence to the rights or party claims of the
members who represent the mass of the
Republicans of the South. Let them
point the inoral, and resolve hereafter to
cast iu their lot with the people among
whom they were bom and reared, and
who are unquestionably their best friends.
DUNGENESS.
Rainfall in May.—Mr. Boardman,
in his statement printed yesterday, re
ports 3.22 of rain in May, against 3.26 last
May, and the month just terminated was
characterized by a spring moisture, while
May of last year will he remembered ps
dry. It is not the amount of rain, but
the manner of its delivery, that ordina
rily makes the great difference between
good and poor growing weather. A sin
gle shower may give three inches or more
by the rain gauge, and coming suddenly
may be lost in drainage, and do little to
temper the atmosphere or moisten the
soil; while the same amount in many gen
tle, dewy showers, may keep the atmos
phere moist, and growing crops in fine
older.
Iu Columbus, according to a telegram
sent to the New York Chronicle, there
were 9.92 of rain during the week euding
Friday, 28th ult., the most of which prob
ably fell on the Thursday previous, aud
occasioned that mclaucholy railway acci
dent, in which four young lives were lost.
That rain was of little or no use to vege
tation—probably did it much more harm
than good, as it must have badly washed
and impacted the soil. With us the rain
of last month came, for the most part, in
moderate and gentle showers, which were
absorbed nearly as fast as they fell, and
thus, with less rainfall than in May, 1879.
the past month will be remembered as
unusually moist aud seasonable.
The Democratic Meeting To-day.
We trust our merchants and citizens gen
erally, including a large attendance from
the country, will put in an appearance at
the court house this morning, to partici
pate in tho deliberations of the first cam
paign meeting of this eventful year. Del
egates will be elected to represent Bibb
county in the approaching convention at
Atlanta, which assembles shortly, for the
purpose of naming the men who will speak
for Geoigia in the national Democratic
convention at Cincinnati.. There is always
power aud enthusiasm in numbers, aud
a rousing gathering of the iron-ribbad Dee
mocracy to-day will do good. Come one,
come all then, say we, and from the rising
of tlie political curtain in June, until it
falls with the ides of November, let every
patriotic citizen resolve to do his whole
duly for tlie success of our grand old par
ty, the conservation of local government,
and the liberties so dear to us all.
A Soft Place.—The heir apparent,
Colonel Fred Grant, has had leave of ab
sence seven out of the ten years of his
military career, and received $16,531 extra
pay and allowances. What a good thing
it is to be an ex-President’s son. But is
this Republicanism, or justice to the less
fortunate officers of the same grade who
have boon kept inarms against the Indi
ans in tlie far West? .
For Lester.—The Democrats of.Wasli-
ington county have met and elected dele
gates to the approaching convention. They
will support Col. Lester, of Chatham,
unanimously for governor.
Fraying for the Radical Convention.
All the Republican parsons of Phila
delphia made their pulpits resound on
Sunday with their prayers in behalf of
the Chicago convention. And never
from all accounts did a body stand in
a greater need of moral and spiritual
help.
The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
says:
Rum lias been flowing like water. The
crowds around the bars are sometimes
in files of three deep, and I do not remem
ber, in a rather diversified experience, to
have seen a more noisy or a rougher as
semblage than that which throngs all the
public places of Chicago.
Moreover, the hotel 'lobbies have been
one swarming mass of excited and loudly-
disputing men the entire day. Personal
collisions between the adherents of Grant
and of Blaine have been frequent, and the
bitterness which has prevailed for several
days has become so intensified that the
situation looks decidedly ugly. Threats
are constantly made by the' Blaine men
that they do not intend to permit any
bulldozing by the Grant managers, or any
half justice through which they may be
defrauded of their rights, and they will
resist any such attempts by force, if ne
cessary. Friends of both Grant and
Blaine openly proclaim that in case of the
nomination of one or the oilier they will
not support him, and that au independent
candidate is inevitable.
Under the above showing, those patri
otic pastors ought not only to pray, hut
fast in the premises. Chicago is just now
a Sodom where every manner of wicked
ness runs riot, and all the villainy of the
most corrupt party the world ever saw
is in full blast. Aud the end is not yet.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union. '
The ladies of Macon, deeply impressed
with the necessity of inculcating temper
ance principles upon their husbands,
brothers, sons and acquaintances, have
formed an oiganization under the title of
“The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union.”
They held their first meeting on Tues
day night, in the First Baptist Church,
aud from the vast crowd in attendance,
and the interesting character of tho exer
cises, have certainly made a good begin
ning.
The following i3 the pledge signed by
each member: “We, temperance women
of Macon, hereby pledge ourselves to
discourage, in all possible ways, the
use of anything which can intoxicate;
and in order to strengthen our influence
in this regard, we promise not to use any
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and not
to furnish them for social entertain
ments.”
This movement is in striking contrast
with the ill-judged attempts of the women
of Tennessee, several years since, to drive
out the bar-keepers and retail liquor deal
ers from their business places by extempo
rized prayer meetings held on their prem
ises. In doing so they unsexed themselves
and brought down the contempt of the
community upon tlie undertaking. In tho
present instance moral suasion, the ear
nest appeals of the pastor and laity of the
various churches, and the gentle yet all-
powerful influence of the ladies, will be
brought to bear upon the young men in a
way vhicli cannot fail to do good. The
manly and straightforward address of
Rev. Mr. Jackson, the touching recitation
of Dufi'us Clancy, and the sturdy and sa
lient remarks of Rev. Dr. Joseph Key iu
advocacy of the movement on Tuesday
night, produced a profound impression,
and many, when invited, came forward
and enlisted under the temperance ban-”
ner.
We are no Wind advocate of temper
ance societies, holding that tho matter is
often run into the ground, and the re-ac
tionary wave more than swallows up all
the good that has been achieved. But the
present undertaking is simply an effort on
the part of our mothers, wives and sisters
to check in social circles the injurious
practice of offering wine and other stimu
lants to visiting guests, aud to promote the
cause of temperance generally. Surely
all can unite upon this platform, and we
trust that the movement will secure the
cordial sanction and co-operation of all
who feel an interest in the moral and
spiritual welfare of the community.
VE6ETIHE
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Vegetiae Cures When Phy
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The Farmer’s Monthly for June,
published by J.*H. Estill, Savannah, has
for frontispiece an illustration of Guern
sey and Jersey • cattle and Hampshire
Down sheep. It is also illustrated by nu
merous other cuts exemplifying farm con
trivances, and by fashion plates. It is the
most complete of Southern agricultural
ournals.
A 'Visit to light Horse Harry lice’s
Grave.
On Friday last the writer accompanied
apartyof Maconites on au excursion ParifisS the Blocdj EsilOVatefi and
from Bunkley’s to Dungeness, on the '
lower end of Cumberland Island. Early
in the morning, before our fellow-board
ers were stirring, drawn by the talented
marsh tackies, our procession moved eff
to the boat landing about two miles
distant. Arriving at the landing, but
a few minutes elapsed before
the “Florence,” en route from Brunswick
to Fernandina, hove in sight and took us
on board, where, under the care of Cap
tain _ Brock, Purser Denson and Clay
Williams, the pilot, the party were made
to feel perfectly at home and comfortable.
The three gentlemen did their utmost to
entertain and amuse the party, and it was
the unanimous verdict that the reputation
of steamboat officers, for courtesy and
kindness, suffered nothing at the hands of
those we have named.
The day was a beautiful one; the gal
lant little steamer ploughed her way
through the smooth water of tlie sound
beneath a cloudless sky; a way down the
left the green woods of Cumberland
stretched before us, on the right the
marshes of the mainland. A white sail
here and there dotted the waters, and an
occasional gull wafted his white plumed
form above us as we sped along. It must
surely have been amid such scenes as this
that Byron wrote his “Isles of Greece,” but
not, however, with a side wheel steamer
before him. Having aboard ship the
United States mails for Florida, we ran
past Dungeness on the way down, landed
our cargo at Fernandina, and hoisting onr
holiday flags, steamed hack for the scene
of ruins. Owing to the shallowness of the
water, the boat could 1 not approach the
pier, so anchored two hundred yards off
shore, lowered her boat and landed the
party by detachments.
The first feeling experienced at
Dungeness is one of oppression. It be
gins when you leave the pier and enter be
neath that long avenue of moss-fringed
oats, continues through every scene you
view and ends only when you strike back
into the sound and leave all behind you.
This is caused probably by the evidence
of a magnificence that exists uo more ex
cept in ruins, by the historical associa
tions and melancholy aspect of the
place. Emerging from the broad avenue,
the mansion, as it is, rises grandly
to view, its walls perfect in their preser
vation, but every vestige of the original
wood-work gone. Across the left comer
of this building, and sweeping clear to the
ground, is a mautle of ivy, which, seen
from a distance, reminds you of the pall
draped irom a bier. The walls we found
to be four stories high and three feet
thick; they are formed ofshells united with
cement, and are as sound apparently, as
upon tlie day they were finished. The
grounds around the house arc beautiful,
and though neglected of course, abound
in flowers and fruit trees; among the lat
ter we saw splendid specimens of the or-
ange and olive trees.
The graves at Dungeness, of which
much has been spoken and written, lie
to the northeast of the house, about a
quarter of a mile distant, and are not
more than a half dozen iu number. Among
them we noticed two mausoleums,beneath
which are buried members of the iamilies
of Shaw and Miller. Upon one tomb
stone is carved the inscription, “Martha
Gresn Nightengale, horn Dec. 13th, 1S43,
died March 10, 1844.” Upon another,
“Chas. Jackson, Newton, Mass. Bom
April 23rd, 1767, died 25th March, ISOO,
at tlie residence of Phineas Miller, Esq.,
Cumberland.” The grave of Lee is
marked by a marble slab, upon which is
engraved:
“Sacred to the Memory of
“GEN. HENRY LEE, OF VIRGINIA,
“Obiit, 25th March, ISIS. AEtat 63.”
The history of Lee is familiar to all.
After the revolution his property dimin
ished and faded away. His last retreat
was Cumberland, where he found a home
at the residence of his old companion-in-
arms, General Nathaniel Greene, who,
however, long before passed away. Lee
had lived in constant expectation that the
government would in some way recognize
l»is services, and grant him pecuniary aid.
It did not, however, and he, too, died, and
was laid away beneath the mossy oaks to
sleep in sound of the surf until the sol
dier’s last reveille shall sound. Speaking
of hi3 death, a correspondent of the Sa
vannah Republican, ot April, 1818, says:
“I yesterday witnessed the interment’of
another of those patriots that our coun
try,” in Congress assembled, so frequently
speak of, but so little assist. • • • •
He was buried from Dungeness
house, the property of- one of
our revolutionary heroes, General
Greene. Whether to meet in fancy his old
companion in arms, in the house that he
had inhabited, or to call hack scenes of
better times led him there, I did not in
quire, but heard that he became an inva
lid—that Mr. Shaw and family strove all
in their power to keep the lamp of life
burning, and although the oil was expend
ed, they still blew the gentle breath of af
fection and attention to preserve the spark
alive. Commodore Henly superintended
the last sad duties.
“Captains Elton, Finch, Madison, Lieu
tenants Fitzhugh and Riche, of the navy,
and Lyman, of the array, were pall-bear
ers. As the procession moved the swords
of the two first crossed the old man’s
breast—they were sheathed, for his heart
beat no more, and I thought they said
‘rest in peace.’ The officers of ihe navy,
inow what jour medicine. VEGLT1NE, C
done la ray daughter. Abcnl /cur year* t go >ho
was so .dieted with Scxofu'aas to be drawn to
one tide as she walked, after trying several ot
the beat phjticiacs at home and at Louisville,
without relief, she was induced to try Vegetine.
Alter taking 20 oott.'ea I consider her perfectly
cured. fhe ha» now a beautiful, clear complex*
ion. without blotch cr blemish, and I have no
hesitation inittributing har cure to your valua
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t . „ , Mis. S. E. BROOK'S.
I can testify to the above.
J. E. OARSON,
Firm o Carson Bma . Druggist!
W. t. KENNEDY.
Proprietor Crab Orcha; d Hotel.
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APPEniE RESTORED
AM NOW HAPPY.
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BiEAH CHAMBERLIN.
T am personally acquainted with Miss Sarah
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and fiud it gives a-iis action.
H. MITTFACHT. Druggist.
Vegetine.
TBE JUDGE’S CHARGE
Verdiet^Cured”
P-XXRiY. O , April 24. 1879.
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, . , tv. H.HaSIiRY.
Judge Laslej wss faimerly a Judge of Probate-
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of influence.
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Boston, Miss.
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appfhtusthrsat daw
and Captain Payne of the army followed.
The marines of the United States ship ‘
John Adams and brig Saranac followed
the guard, and a band from our army as
sisted. A Mr. Taylor performed the last
ceremonial duties. • * • • A volley
of musketry over the grave of Gen. Lee
aroused me, and with folded arms I re
traced my steps, while the howling of the
minute guns from the John Adams,
echoed through the woods.”
The last grave at Dungeness is that ol
little George Denson Davis, who was ac
cidentally killed by his father with a shot
gun, a few weeks since. The gun, a
breech-loader, was being charged, when
the closing of the breech exploded the
cartridge. Seeing blood upon the hoy’s
lip, the father asked, “Did it strike your
mouth, my child ?” “No,” was the reply,
“it struck me here, but you didn’t go to
do it.” Placing his hand on his side as
he spoke, he fell dead. The entire charge
had entered his body.
Having taken all notes possible at
Dungenes?, our little party boarded the
Florence again, and after another flying
visit to Fernandina, steamed swiftly
homeward. As we passed the ruins
again, we bade farewell in silent glances
to the spot crowned by nature with so
mudi beauty, and hallowed by memories
sad and swe’et. H. S. E
—A worthy banker has separated from
his wife, who is recklessly extravagant.
Presently lie falls ill and she sends to in
quire after his health.
The maid is ush.ered_ into the dying
man’s chamber and begins her message:
“My mistress has sent me to ask”-—
“For how much?” says the dying man
with a sigh.
—At the Madison Square Theatre the
all 1 is colled by passing it over two tons of
ice. During the present week a new
mechanism will be introduced which will
still further reduce the temperature. Mr.
Mackaye says that lie can make the audi
torium cool enough to keep butter solid.
—Mr. Thurlow Weed, who heads the
anti-Grant delegation from New York
City, started for Chicago on Tuesday. Mr.
Weed will head a delegation which will
present to the convention resolutions
against the nomination of General Grant,
and warn the convention that the nomi
nation wilLgive New York to the Demo
crats.
South Carolina’s Next Governor.
The Charleston Netcs states that General
Johnson Hagood has already secured a
majority of delegates favorable to his
nomination as the Democratic candidate
for governor of South Carolina. General
Ilagood, who is an able man, was a Con
federate brigadier, and is now the auditor
general of the State.
A Chapter from English Life.
Rev. Canon Duckworth, who has re
cently fallen under the royal displeasure
for some cause unknown, was tutor to
Queen Victoria’s children several years
ago. He is handsome, with a strong
English clerical face, has dark liair and
clear complexion, is polished iu his man
ner and sings admirably. He is tlie pat
tern curate. At the time he had the
good fortune to be numbered in the royal
household he had under liis charge the
Princess Louise, the best looking of her
Majesty’s children. The Princess took a
strong liking to the young priest; in fact,
she was devoted to him so pointedly
that it became for him a serious question
of what he was to do. He took the
wisest course possible, aud wrote
to the Queen that she had bet-
to get another tutor. Acting as he did
he was of course sure of the smile from the
throne, which, iu England, means a for
tune. Her Majesty was naturally very
much disturbed by the communication of
the reverend Canon, and hardly knew how
to act. At first she thought of placing the
Princess in one of the High Church con
vents for a term. For this purpose she
visited Clewer to inspect one located
in that hotbed of ritualism. Strict orders
were given the Mother Superior that no
one was to know of the Queen’s visit.
While passing along a corridor, one of
the Sisters passed and made a very deep
reverence. Her Majesty, turning sharply
to the Mother Superior, said:
•‘I thought I commanded that no one
should know of my presence?”
“Your Majesty’s order has been obeyed.
The reverence made by the Sister was
made not to your Majesty, but to myself
as Mother Superior.”
This reply so incensed the Queen’s dig-
dity that she retired in disgust, and the
idea of placing the Princess in a sisterhood
was abandoned. Then it wa3 that in con
sultation with the prime minister she
carried out tlie plan to marry her
daughter to the Marquis of Lome.
The marquis was not the one originally
intended, but happened to be the
only one available. The Marquis of
Hamilton, on learning the Queen’s proba
ble intention, started at once for Ireland
and proposed to the lady who is now his
wife. The other sons of dukes who
happened to be in the metropolis, fled-tbe
royal command. Lome happened to be
in London on his yrsy home from Berlin.
He had become too’devoted to Margaret
B , a fascinating and fair American—
a girl whose face suggested Tennyson’s
“Margaret,” and his father, fearing
an alliance, recalled his sandy-haired son
by telegraph. In London he was gobbled
for a banter and less palatable fate than
he had himself selected. The Queen’s
command reached him, and he was-
obliged to obey. His marriage settled the
difficulty so innocently started by tlie
handsome canon, who became a canon of
Westminster, aud was presented by the-
Qneen with tlie living in St. John’s Wood,
with a round $5,000. He was selected as
chaplain to accompany the Prince of
Wales in his trip to India, and in time
would, no donbt, have succeeded to
greater dignities and more generous emol
uments.
Beer Still on the Rlse.—The Phila
delphia brewers announce their purpose
to raise the price of their product one dol
lar a barrel in a few days, making the
price ten dollars per barrel. This will
make the second advance within tbe pres
ent year, the price having been raised
from eight dollars to nine dollars a barrel,
a little more than a month ago. The
brewers base their action upon the present
high prices of ice, malt, feed, labor and
other commodities which are necessary to-
their business, and contend tb.it unless
the advance is conceded by the trade their
business will cease to be a profitable one
Too Much Iron?—Work Must Stop-
or Wages be Cut.—Work in the princi
pal Philadelphia iron mills has ceased,
and about 1,400 men heretofore employed
in * this branch of labor are idle. The
trouble has been brought about by a noti
fication of the manufactured that on and
after Monday last they would be com
pelled to reduce tho wages of puddlers
from $5.25 to $4.25 per ton, with a propor
tionate reduction in the wages of all other
employes. The manufacturers claim that
this reduction was made necessary by the-
present low price of iron, which in the last
month has declined fromfourcents to two
tnd a half cents per pound. They say
that even if tlie men consent to work at
the reduced wages there will be little or
no profit in the manufacture of iron. This
large falling off in the price of iron has
been occasioned by large importations of
English iron.